Engadget has released a good quality demo of the sailfish OS here.
It's the first well filmed demo (no shaking camera and chittering on the
background) that I've been able to spot since the launch at Slush. Over 500
comments, so there is definitely interest in some truly open (OS AND ecosystem,
unlike Android) multitasking player in the mobile scene.

And Forbes magazine has mentioned Jola as a major contender in the future of
mobile over
here.

For all of those too impatient to wait for a full Sailfish OS binary SDK
release (due for Q1 2013), the Mer project has released a good documentation on
how to build your own environment under VirtualBox.

The version presented at Slush is a technical preview. After presenting
it we are applying updates based on the feedback received by the community and
we will make the binaries available in early Q1 2013. In the meantime you can
follow the steps on the merproject.org
page and build most of the SDK yourself.

It will be available for Windows, Linux, and OSX.
Can't wait to test!

Almost simultaneously the MeeGo hackers were announcing the port of Sailfish OS
on the Nokia N9 on their facebook
account in a very near future.

There are some interesting comments from Jaakko Roppola about the philosophy
of the Sailfish UI, that I've tried to translate as accurately possible:

"The UI has been built around simplicity and ease of use"

"No need to into the application and back off. You can just slide the
application icon on the side to execute commands"

"What are the limits? - Basically the physical size (of the screen), and in
some cases there is no need for interaction. For example the People application
doesn't have any interaction"

"What about the multitasking and its limits? - There's a human limit. We
don't want to make a second page with icons. When you have a certain number of
applications open, the least used one will not be visible. It will still be
running, but won't be visible on the home screen" (From what I've heard, it
should be 9 application maximum on the home screen currently)

"You can close the application like this (by pressing them a few seconds and
tapping the cross)"

"Is there a context menu? - Yes, and we can demonstrate our Ambiance
application at the same time. You get the context menu for the application by
swiping from top to bottom from anywhere on the screen. When I release it, it
executes the function it has been asigned"

"There have been many questions about the Ambiance: is it not just some eye
candy? No, it was just one of the targets we wanted to show. You have to think
much further than adapting the colours of the phone to some picture you just
find in the gallery."

"There is one thing we have been quite clear about when we've been
discussing the UI between ourselves: we don't want any buttons everywhere on
the screen. Rather, the navigation is by gestures only."

"For example, here , I can go digging very far in the hierarchy, and just
swipe my way back to top. But I still see the hierarchy and just by one gesture
I can go back to my home screen to check whether I have network, how much
battery I've got left..."

"What about notifications? - If you're not using the phone, the notification
will be on the home screeen, but if you're using an app, the notification for a
call for example will pop up ,but it won't be persistent in the application
window. It will be directly on the screen, and you won't have to search for an
SMS somewhere in another application. Basically, everything must be very close
anywhere, but everything must NOT be everywhere."

The bottom line is: cool user-friendly interface that you can use
single-handedly blindfolded. THAT seems to be the idea behind Sailfish OS UI.
Ans it's truly open, not like the Android ecosystem where Google's
basically bullying everyone around.

Jolla's Sailfish OS was announced yesterday at the nordic Slush startup
event.

As the organizers of the event humorously pointed out, Finland in November
certainly isn't California, but the startups have never been
better.

Simultaneously, the jolla.com and sailfishos.org websites were finally opened to the
public.
Until now, Jolla had been quite secretive about the project, having only a
twitter and a facebook account, plus some haphazard interviews with executives
like Jussi Hurmola.
Seeing the superb result, a true multitask OS that can be operated
single-handedly (no politically incorrect pun at Marc Dillon intended) with
just a few swiping gestures, I can understand why these guys were busyier
coding and making their product work, rather than putting up communication
hype.
You could sense the tension, emotion of the moment, and a bit of a lack of
polished PR preparation in the keynote.
That's all right guys, you really rock, far away from usual hype of contentless
startups!
Not a single single technical glitch during the presentation, except for the
sound guys at slush ;-). The demos just worked fluidly.

Several new partnerships were announced, in addition to the existing chinese
D-Phone deal, amongst which:
DNA: A finnish mobile operator,
Myriad: for the Android compatibility layer,
ST-Ericsson: that will ensure OS compatibility with Sony-Ericsson smartphone
hardware like the powerful NovaThor
system-on-chips.

It is also possible to purge the statistics history, through the use of the
same package.

exec DBMS_STATS.PURGE_STATS(SYSDATE-7);

Beware, the process can be quite long (several hours), and
undo tablespace-consuming.
Be sure you dispose of enough diskspace to accomodate the resulting rollback
segment and archivelog creation, and be prepared to delete archivelogs through
RMAN.